Research Results:

Computers are profoundly ignorant. Even modern ones know as little about
the world as the ENIAC. Our goal is to develop methods to build
knowledgeable
computers - capable of conversing intelligently on many topics.
This development would herald a real computer revolution.

The intellectual basis for our work is Artificial Intelligence. We study:

Knowledge
representation and reasoning to encode knowledge in a language
that computers can reason with

Knowledge acquisition to capture knowledge from people and texts
to encode in a knowledge base

Explanation
generation to convey in English the knowledge and reasoning
used by a system to answer a hard question

Umbrella Projects

Project
Halo: develop and evaluate technologies for building a Digital
Aristotle